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trict when he says that no boat around
cost more than $40 to build. This of course
was perhaps owing to the honorable
Members ignorance of the real value
of such boats, for as far as lie knew,
they often cost 800. AS to the military
coffee question he had not the slightest
desire to vote against the Bill and prOvld-
ed it did not cost any more, let them be
granted milk or anything else that is ne
cessary for coffee. The soldiers he thought
were poorly paid and fed equally as bad,
therefore if this little luxury could be
granted them, he did not think 1t should
be denied them. Not that the coffee, as
remarked in the Motives, would prevent
h esoldiers taking their morning 'SchnapS",
but it would better establish heir stOmlchs
to receive it.
The GOotrnorin introducing the 2nd item
otthe Additional Money Bill, viz: all annual
support of $4,000 to Mr.. Browne former
teacher of Two Williams school, would
merely state as would be seen in the Mo-
tiveS, that Mr.. Browne had been a teacher
in the Country Schools for u period of
more than 20 years and in fOrmPryears he had
been a capable teacher, and considering
that after his dismissal his means Of sub
s~iStence would be very scarce, the Ministry
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Additional Money Bill being laid before
the Council. Mr.. Brownies salary, during
his service averaged 1880 D.. a., there.
fore he thought that / Of that amOun
would he a suitable annual pension.
He would add that the Government in
tended in future to include the amount in
the yearly Drafts of Budget.
2nd Member for Christiansted's Town
District (Lemming) begged to recommend
the Bill. 1t was in perfect accordance
with what had previously been done.
That the grant would be placed on each
succeeding Budget was also in accordance
with precedence.
3rd Member for FrederiksteUs County
District (Heooit0 would like to know the
reason of Mr.. Brownies dismissal.
The Governor in referring the honorable
Member to the Motives of the Bill, would
merely state that Mr.. Brownies discharge
was owing to physical disability.
4th Member Cor Christiansted's Country
District (RdphdeD would ask if the amount
would be a standing grantH
2nd Member for ChriSriansted's Town
District Lemming) begged to inform the
honorable member that the amount would
appear on each succeeding Budget, but
IKE every other item on the Budgets
would be voted upon each time.
The Governor in Introducing the 3rd item
OF the Additional Money Bill stated hat the
repairs to the piers at Fre,leriksted had
been necessitated by the damage done by
the heavy ground swell that prevailed on
the 22nd and 23rd Of October 1886.
The GOUernOr Immediately after intro
duced the second Additional Money Bill pro-
posing a grant Of 5000 for repairing the
bridge over the wafer course running south
OF the Estate Grange. The 18th paragraph
OF the Road Ordinance provides that under
extraordinary circumstances the expenses
OF repairs, usually met by contributions as,
sesSed OIL the inhab tantS of the "Quarter,'
may be taken over by the public; and the
principal estate owners in COmpany's Quar-
ter had petifiOned the Government to apply
the IN this ease. Tie view that the
Government had taken in the matter, he
would sum up in u few remarks. In No
vember 1886 after a heavy fall of rain, the
southern part of the wall on the western
side broke down, as he current carried away
the surrounding material, partly because of
the quality of the soil, and partly owing to
Insufficient foundation. In the course of
the year 1886, the same bridge, then brOken
dow in a similar way AS now, had once
already been repaired, and the cost Of the
repairs, about 1925, was hen distributed
among the properties in the quarter in the
same proportion as the road allotments;
considering this, and as the estate owners
i'll the quarter nave had to defray another